Welcome to Beyond 62!
I am officially starting this project and I am really excited to write this first blog post. I will refer to this project as MSP and this is MSP-1.
During the next couple of weeks, I will share with you my questions and problems, the solutions I found and my progress to send a balloon above 100.000ft. After doing some preliminary researches, I found out that most people have 2 ways to do it.
- Either use as many out of the box devices as possible
- Either build everything themselves
Despite many hours spent studying electronics in college, I can say that I pretty much know nothing about it.
Building a custom system such as a GPS connected to a circuit board with a temperature and pressure sensor seems out my league for now.
I want to go simple. I want big wins with the least efforts. I may have to approximate the altitude reached for example but if that saves me hours and hundred of dollars, well for my first trial, so be it. I didn’t set a deadline or any time frame yet but I expect MSP-1 to be launched by the end of January.
If you have some questions about all this, I suggest that you check here. Otherwise feel free to leave a comment or to contact me.
I proclaim nothing out of your league.